Transcript of "Linked Data at the BBC"

2.
overview
• what
is
the
BBC
doing
with
Linked
Data
• what
have
we
learnt
• what
are
our
main
challenges

3.
Linked
Data
Pla3orm
• “To
organise
the
BBC's
online
content
around
the
things
that
ma5er
to
our
audience”
• Link,
reuse
content
and
expose
it
in
novel
and
interesAng
ways
• Available
to
many
online
products

4.
what
does
that
mean?
• A
lot
of
data
• Deﬁning
the
scope
and
the
data
model
very
well
and
clearly
• Enabling
tools
and
services,
self
provisioning

8.
lessons
learnt
Adding
complexity
while
not
directly
adding
value
to
the
proposiAon
is
not
a
good
idea
• “Nice
to
have”,
“cool
thing
to
do”
are
not
compelling
reasons
when
dealing
with
a
producAon,
24/7
live
pla3orm

9.
lessons
learnt
• Trying
to
be
a
good
LOD
ciAzen
should
be
done
carefully
• Examples
– more
than
1M
unused
FOAF
triples
– Geonames
ontology
very
large
and
diﬃcult
to
delete.
• Very
hard
to
manage
unused
models
when
serving
many
clients.